If we are going to march Members down to the well of the House to apologize, Joe Wilson is going to have to get in line behind Nancy Pelosi, who attacked the intelligence community who protects us, Charlie Rangel who cheated on his taxes, Jack Murtha – a walking scandal, and we all know how the Democratic leadership tried to protect William Jefferson. Democrats don’t want an apology. They want a side show – something to shift the focus away from their government-run experiment on health care.

But according to a USA Today/Gallup poll, most Americans agree with the Democrats. The poll showed that 68 percent of Americans opposed Wilson's outburst, and 23 percent of Americans expressed "outrage" over the incident. Even a majority of Republicans opposed the remarks, but fewer Republicans were "outraged."

On Sunday, Obama toldSteve Kroft of the CBS news program "60 Minutes" that he put the Wilson incident behind him. “Congressman Wilson shouting out during my joint sessions speech was a surprise not just to me, but I think a lot of his Republican colleagues who, you know, said that it wasn’t appropriate,” Obama said. "He apologized afterwards, which I think I appreciated, and I’ve said so.”